AWS for DevOps: Performance Optimization Best Practices

Get tips and tricks for optimizing performance as an AWS DevOps engineer. Learn how to measure performance and optimize network traffic, compute (EC2), and storage services.

Introduction

• Tips and tricks for AWS DevOps
• What you should know
• Overview

1. Measuring Performance

• Load testing your website
• Visualizing metrics in CloudWatch
• Challenge: Benchmarking databases
• Solution: Benchmarking databases

2. Optimizing Compute Resources

• Choosing the right EC2 instance
• Use cases for Spot Instances
• High performance computing
• Challenge: Auto Scaling patterns
• Solution: Auto Scaling patterns

3. Network Traffic Optimizations

• VPC endpoints
• Placement groups
• Network packet size
• Challenge: Measuring network performance
• Solution: Measuring network performance

4. Storage

• Choosing the right cloud storage
• Indexing DynamoDB
• Challenge: File sharing
• Solution: File sharing

Conclusion

• Next steps